Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wolves were the first communists, or why canines taught hominids how to be social

2010-04-15 Thread CeJ
And here we see the co-evolution of gesturing. Humans have gestures, wolves have gestures, but wolves do not understand human gestures. However, dogs do. The example of the dingo is most illuminating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo#Social_behavior Other forms of communication During

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] On the arbitrary vs. motivated in human communication

2010-04-15 Thread CeJ
Oops, forgot the most interesting part of the discussion, the border collies: http://www.bordercollierescue.org/advice/Content/UniCommands.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wolves were the first communists, or why canines taught hominids how to be social

2010-04-15 Thread CeJ
This is an absolutely fascinating page about wolves and other wolf-like canines. What strikes me most when reading it, is that the sheer utter success of the wolves and coyotes in being top-predator in all the places that humans eventually got to. It also shows me I know very little about wolves,

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wolves were the first communists, or why canines taught hominids how to be social

2010-04-15 Thread CeJ
Tie these two sets of information together, and we might be able to theorize some plausible scenarios for Neanderthal extinction. When you look at Neanderthal vs. Cro Magnon, you have to ask why in particular Cro Magnon survives and carries on the human line, but Neanderthals go extinct. One

[Marxism-Thaxis] A little march on Wall Street, finally

2010-04-15 Thread c b
A visit at the end of the month of April would be close to May Day. CB A critical terrain of struggle http://peoplesworld.org/a-critical-terrain-of-struggle/ by: Sam Webb April 14 2010 tags: economy, banks, financial reform, labor The AFL-CIO and its new president, Richard Trumka, are going

[Marxism-Thaxis] End game: Part 4 on the Communist Internationals (UAW unions in real time)

2010-04-15 Thread Waistline2
End game The political battles waged by Marx and Engels to give the First International an outlook and program independent of all ideology of the propertied classes has been outlined and preserved as part of the Soviet Legacy in Marx and the Trade Unions. Marx and the Trade Unions, by

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wolves were the first communists, or why canines taught hominids how to be social

2010-04-15 Thread c b
On 4/14/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote: I like a speculation by the aughor of The Monkey in the Mirror (I forget his name just now) as to the origin of language. First, he assumes (which seems right to me) that the cpacity for language was a spandrel, not a trait in itself seleced for.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Part 1 on the Communist Internationals

2010-04-15 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 4/12/2010 5:53:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _editor_revdem@ indiatimes. com_ (_mailto:editor_ (mailto:editor) _ _rev...@indiatime_ (mailto:rev...@indiatime) s.com) writes: Speech by Mátyás Rákosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party at the Meeting of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-15 Thread c b
I certainly quote all those often. Charles On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote: I'm in a rush right now, but the main inspirations for my perspective come from: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/intro.htmIntroduction to A Contribution to

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Praxis interpreters of Marxism

2010-04-15 Thread Ralph Dumain
But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. -- Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right To have one basis for life and another for science is apriori a lie. -- Private Property and Communism from the Economic-Philosophical

[Marxism-Thaxis] Guy Robinson: blog (4)

2010-04-15 Thread Ralph Dumain
There is at least one surviving blog by Guy Robinson: Guy's Philosophical Nuggets http://dalkeyguy.blogspot.com/ Among other things, his correspondence with Thomas Kuhn can be found here. As is usual for all reactionary philosophies, Robinson's bugbear is Descartes and the Enlightenment. For